Watch Episode 1 Of Chiwetel Ejiofor's New BBC Crime Series "The Shadow Line"

Well, look what we have here… I figured it’d be just a matter of time before someone uploaded this… and, sure enough, here it is – episode 1 of that new Chiwetel Ejiofor BBC crime series, The Shadow Line , which made its TV debut on BBC 2, in the UK, last week Thursday!

The series is not available for audiences outside the UK – not even on the BBC’s website – but you can thank YouTube user “m4r71jn” for taking the time to get the first episode online for the rest of the world to watch.

I’ve written about this new series a few times already, so I won’t rehash. Click HERE to catch up. Reviews of episode 1, as I posted last Friday, weren’t stellar. But you can find out for yourself by watching the episode, embedded below, divided into 6 parts, before it disappears:

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